KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 ― After a humiliating 10-0 defeat to UAE, Johor crown prince Tunku Ismail Ibrahim urged the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM) to sack coach Dollah Salleh immediately and replace him with a more qualified foreign coach.

Tunku Ismail said the Johor Football Association (FA) itself will contribute cash into the hiring of a new coach, claiming that foreign ones ― such as Croatian manager Bojan Hodak and newly-appointed Argentinian Roberto Carlos Mario Gómez ― had led to the success of the Johor Darul Ta’zim FC.

“Johor FA will contribute a budget to hire a foreign coach who is more qualified to guide our national team. Enough is enough, we cannot continue to be ignorant with the problem we are facing.

“Sack Dollah Salleh as soon as possible to improve whatever we can and to save whatever dignity we have left and before our football standard continue to deteriorate,” he said in a posting on the football club’s Facebook page.

The prince however had a condition for local football clubs to earn between 70 to 80 per cent of the match broadcast earnings, saying that FAM does not need more than 20 or 25 per cent.

He said the earnings would help into hiring a foreign coach, in addition to developing a grassroots training for every state football associations and clubs.

He also urged for the establishment of football academies to teach players professionalism, something which FAM and all teams have failed in so far.

“We need external expertise, and patrons of local footballs must change our own attitude first before changing the attitude local football players. Any FAM committee members who have long ceased to function should just take a long holiday,” he said.

“If the head is wrong, then the tail would also be wrong,” he added, in an apparent dig at FAM president the Pahang crown prince Tengku Abdullah Ahmad Shah, who took over from his father after beating Tunku Ismail in the election last year.

Malaysia lost to UAE in Abu Dhabi yesterday in the Asian Zone World Cup qualifiers, after the latter led by 7-0 in the half-time.